Device for blotting trade-marks and the like.



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C. G. RICHARDSON.

DEVICE FOR BLOTTING TRADE MARKS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26. m3.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918'.

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WKTED TATE PATENT @FFKQE CHARLES e. RICHARDSON, or SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT;

DEVICE FOR BLOTTING TRADE-MARKS AND THE LIKE.

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. tingfresh ink marks, applied to fabrics, for

trademarking, numbering or other purposes and is intended to provide a simple and efficient device for absorbing or drying the ink mark on the fabric without blurringthe mark, so as to avoid the possibility of the fresh ink mark being transferred to some other portion of the cloth with which it may come in contact when the cloth is being rolled or otherwise handled.

The device may be applied to a variety of machines in which cloth is handled such for example as measuring machines, rolling and batching machines.'etc., in fact in any machine to which a trade-marking; printing or marking device is commonly used or may be used, a

The invention consists primarily in a blotter of absorbent material, such as felt or the like, mounted to be moved into intermittent contact with the cloth passing; through the machine, and particularly with that portion of the cloth on which the mark has been printed. means being provided for so cotirdinating the movements of the blotter with the movement of the cloth and the action of the inking die as to insure the contact of the blotter with the cloth at each point where the mark has been printed. By giving the revolving blotter a curvature concentric with the axis of its rotation, a rolling contact between the blotter and the ink portion of the cloth may be secured .without danger of blurring while the contact endures. At the same time provision is made for shifting the blotter so that dry portions thereof are successivelybrought into operative contact with the inked portions of the cloth, while the portion of the blotter that has last operated is shifted out of possible contact with the cloth, so that .there will be no transfer of the wet ink from the blotter to any portion of the cloth. This and other features of the invention will be particularly pointed out in the fol-.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 2s, 1913. Serial No. 781,326.

. atented Nov.5, 191's.

lowing specification, and will be clearly defined in the claims hereto annexed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated the preferred form of embodylng the principles of this invention in connection with the cloth-supporting and feed roll of a batching or rolling machine. 7

Figural is an end elevation of thedevice applied to such a machine; and i Fig. 2 is a front elevation at right angles 7 to the plane of Fig. 1. showing the'devic e applied to such a machine.

Fig. 31s a. detail view showing. in vertical central section the relation of the intermittently acting lever for shifting the blotting belt and its fixedcontrollin r cam.

I have shown in the drawings only so much of the batching machine as directly cooperates with the subject-matter of this invention. I have also shown, the trademarking or ink-applying device in so far as is requisite to a complete understanding of the present invention, but it will be understood that the trade-marking device shown, forms no part of this invention.

The cloth-supporting and feeding roll a of the batching machine is shown mounted on the driving shaft a whose end carries a gear or pinion a, the cloth indicated at in passingover this roll in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1.

The marking device here shown comprises a die 6 carried by the revolving gear member b which intermeshes with the gear a on the shaft a. c designates the inking device by which the face of the die I) is suitably provided with ink before the die itself comes into contact with the cloth trav cling over the roll a, each revolution of the gear member I). therefore, results in leaving one impression of the inked :die on the cloth, 'the successive marks or impressions being spaced on predetermined portions of the cloth at a-distance determined by thev circumferential measure of the revolution of the die face. 7

' The blotter herein shown comprises an endless band d of felt, which is passed over two supporting pulleys d (1 which are ing pinion 12* on the shaft 6 and a sprocket wheel 6 secured to the end of the shaft 6.

The arm d is preferably made longer than the arm 6Z so that only that portion of the blotter (Z which is resting on the outermost surface or periphery of the pulley 03 will come in contact with the surface of the cloth on the cloth roll as, the blotter is revolved with the shaft 6. Moreover, as shown in Fig. l, the pulley (Z is preferably crowned or convexly curved concentrically with the axis e, so that that portion of the blotter located to come in contact with the cloth shall have a rolling contact, free from rubbing or slip therewith during such time as the blotter is in contact with the cloth. The proportion and arrangement of the various operating parts are so coordinated that the operative portion of the blotter during its rotation shall come in contact with that particular part of the surface of the cloth on which the die has previously impressed the trade-mark or other emblem.

In order to prevent the blurring of the mark or the transfer of any ink impressions from the wet portion of the blotter to the cloth, I have provided means for shifting the blotter so that at each operation it will present a dry or unused portion of its surface to each fresh mark impressed by the die, and this also forms an important feature of the invention. This is accomplished in a simple manner by attaching to the framework or bracket a an eccentric stationary cam member 7 whose periphery is engaged by a lever 7 pivotally mounted on the lower end of the arm d which lever is'held in permanent contact with the cam periphery f by means of a tension spring f At its opposite end the lever carries a pivoted pawl member f which engages a ratchet wheel f secured to the shaft of the pulley d, the pawl being kept in proper engagement with the ratchet wheel by means of a .tension spring 7. The concentric or swell portion of the cam is so located as to depress the lever f and operate the ratchet wheel 7 through the pawl to turn the pulley d a short distance at some point during each revolution of the shaft 6, when the blotter is wholly out of contact with the cloth. This intermittent shifting movement of the blotter belt 61 is preferably in the direction indicated by the arrow, so as to carry the moistened spot on the blotter toward the outside edge of the cloth.

As only a small shifting movement need be given each operation of the blotter, and as a belt several feet long can be readily employed, it will be seen that ample time is given for each ink moistened spot on the blotter to become thoroughly dried out before that spot has passed through the entire belt circumference into position to be-- come operative against the cloth a second time. Moreover, the belt is readily detachable, so that it may be washed, dried and replaced in the machine.

What I claim .is:-

1. The combination with a cloth-supporting roll of a blotter mounted to revolve about an axis transverse to the travel of the cloth over the roll and in position to form a contact with portions of the cloth at predetermined intervals at each revolution of the blotter, said blotter being extended in a plane oblique to its axis so as to present a portion only of its surface in contact with the cloth, substantially as described.

2. The herein described blotter device embracing a supporting shaft, blotter-supporting means mounted thereon, a blotter comprising an endless belt of absorbent material mounted on said supporting means, said belt being extended in a plane oblique to the axis of said shaft and means for shifting said belt intermittently, substantially as described.

3. A blotter device embracing in its construction a supporting shaft, brackets secured thereto, belt-supporting members carried by said brackets, a belt of absorbent material mounted thereon, the operative surface of said belt being curved concentrically with the axis of said shaft as and for the purpose described.

4. The combination of the rotary shaft, the bracket of unequal length secured thereto, belt-carrying pulleys mounted in said brackets, a belt of absorbent material passed around said brackets for operative support and means for intermittently shifting said belt to bring fresh portions thereof into operative position, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the revolving shaft, a belt of absorbent material extending longitudinally of the shaft and its support ing pulleys operatively supported by said shaft to revolve therewith, a ratchet and pawl mounted to intermittently rotate one of said pulleys to shift said belt and means for actuating said pawl intermittently at each revolution of the shaft, substantially as described. 7

6. The combination with the cloth-supporting member, a blotter consisting of a strip of absorbent material extended in a plane oblique to the surface of the cloth, revoluble supporting means for said blotter operating by their revolutions to bring a portion of the blotter into intermittent contact with the cloth and means for shifting said blotter intermittently to bring different portions thereof successively into contact with different portions of the cloth, substantially as described.

7. In a cloth marking machine the com bination with the rotary cloth-supporting roll of a revolving marking die arranged to intermittently mark the cloth at pre-cleterminedintervals and a revolving blotter of absorbent material Whose movement is coordinated with the movement of the cloth roll and of the die to contact with the marked portion of the cloth and means for intermittently shifting the absorbent blotter in a transverse direction to remove the blotted portion thereof out of the plane of rotation of the die.

8. The combination with the rotary clothsupporting roll of a marking die movable into intermittent contact with the cloth to mark the same at suitable intervals, a blotter belt movable into intermittent contact with the cloth and coordinated With the movement of the cloth roll and of the die' so as to contact With the successive marked portions of the cloth and means for shifting the belt intermittently across the travel of the cloth to bring fresh portions of the belt successively into line with the path of the marking die substantially as described.

CHARLES G. RICHARDSON. In the presence of BLANCHE L. NORTON, FRANCES M. DOUGLASS.

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